GHSA-8mx4-8xfc-qr43HighCVSS 6.5
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 8670835, contains an information disclosure vulnerability...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
FFmpeg through 8.1.2, fixed in commit 8670835, contains an information disclosure vulnerability in the LCL/ZLIB video decoder that allows attackers to expose uninitialized heap memory by supplying a valid zlib stream that inflates to fewer bytes than the expected frame size. The zlib_decomp() function in lcldec.c treats short decompression as non-fatal and continues to the RGB24 conversion path, which copies a full frame's worth of rows from the allocation buffer using original frame dimensions, causing uninitialized heap contents including pointer-derived allocator bytes to be copied into the attacker-observable AVFrame output and potentially defeating ASLR in long-lived media processing services.
🔗 References (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-66038
- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/e7cbfd1c507b57a806a5825b87d609963e862c8c
- https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/23626
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/ffmpeg-lcl-zlib-video-decoder-information-disclosure-via-lcldec-c
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8mx4-8xfc-qr43